Seriously, every day I read a story about how the Dow Jones is fluctuating wildly, gaining or losing 300 points based on some random event that occurred on any given day. The entire reason our economy is in the shitter is because of speculation based investment. When are these fucking idiots going to learn?
However, that's not the thing that made me scratch my head. This was:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/18/mayors.pork/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
I read the article a while back about the Mayors' conference that suggested 11k "ready-to-go" infrastructure projects that would stimulate jobs, etc, but this is fucking retarded. It's clear to me that the people we're electing into office just don't fucking know how the system or economy work. We elect into office one of two presidential candidates who vow to fight porkbarrel spending, and yet we're still getting this shit! Admittedly some of these things would indeed create jobs, but it's clear that these stupid mayors just came together and said "okay put everything in this proposal that you think will create jobs" instead of "how do we increase the public welfare of our town/country?"
/rant.
Discuss your outrage.
edit: example, the Roger Williams Zoo in Providence wants $4.8m to build a polar bear exhibit. Sure, it'll create jobs in the short term, and probably boost zoo revenue, but what the fuck good does that do the public. Like if the zoo went under due to harsh economy zoologists all over will be feeling the hurt, local communities will start looting zoos and stealing tigers. Fucking retards.